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Activity for Monica Cellio
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #285009 |
This is a good overview of Shabbat times. Could you be a little more explicit about the specific question? You said (unsourced) that it's based on the astronomical time of sunset, and then quoted Wikipedia which defines "astronomical" as what's *visible* -- which is the distinction I'm trying to ma... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285008 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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For starting Shabbat, is sunset astronomical or visible? A few years ago, on the fall equinox, I noticed that the day was longer than 12 hours according to the (secular) sunrise/sunset times. Curious, I did some investigation. One reason for the difference is how we measure -- the equinox is based on when the center of the sun is visible while sunrise/su... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277600 | Post undeleted | — | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284722 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How to import content from Stack Exchange? Sorry about the confusion! We imported a small number of questions and answers from Mi Yodeya. If any of those had been written by you, then they would have been assigned to a "holding" account on import. When you connected your accounts and claimed the content, those posts would have been changed... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284627 |
@#53288 I don't know why it has a downvote -- maybe because it doesn't say where this happens and the author rolled back an edit that added it. It's fine to ask how a particular post can be improved, but this is not the place to discuss general downvote philosophy. Sometimes downvotes are clearly a... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278321 |
Post edited: |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284627 |
Personal attacks are not ok and those comments have been deleted. Please keep it civil; it's possible to disagree respectfully. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284639 | Question closed | — | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284639 |
Please break this up into individual questions or *closely-related* questions. Each of these questions could warrant a full answer by itself; asking an answer to address all of them to address any of them makes it more likely that there will be no answers at all. I'm putting this on hold; please na... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284627 |
Hello. I edited that into the post so it would be more visible, but I see you've edited it back out. Any particular reason? Or were you editing for something else and reversing my edit was an accident? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284627 |
Post edited: added location info from comment |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284627 |
Welcome to the community! Torah Shleimah is a large collection; could you edit to add one or two places where this reference occurs? This might make it easier to compare to the original version. Thanks. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284547 |
I don't own a copy of Davka Writer. Looks like they do have a Mac version, for $159.
Did you mean to post this as an answer (instead of as a comment)? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284535 |
Thank you for this pointer, and also for mentioning SBL Hebrew (a font I didn't have, but have now downloaded). And yes, I'm looking for text with *niqud* and *ta'amim*, just like in your links. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284313 |
Thanks for clearing up my misunderstanding about the requirements. That said, how did we get from the text saying "do this for seven days" to the halacha being "do this for one day"? The text seems to be clear, so obviously I'm missing something. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284307 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
Why do we dwell in booths every day during Sukkot, but we don't have to eat matzah every day during Pesach? In the instructions for festivals, Vayikra 23:6 says, of Pesach: > You shall eat unleavened bread for seven days. Devarim 16:3 is similar, and Devarim 16:8 starts: "After eating unleavened bread six days", which sure sounds like it's been a daily occurrence. I have been taught that we are on... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284003 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Sh'mita and the home garden: what if anything is permitted? I live in the diaspora and this doesn't affect me personally, but in thinking about the sh'mita cycle while tending my small garden, I found myself wondering about some details. Does the law to not plant and let fields lie fallow for the year apply only to "crops" (to be defined), or to anything you ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283913 |
Thanks @#8062; I did not know that. So the *b'racha* might not be required for the *mitzvah* to count, but don't we still have to worry about a blessing made in vain? If you say the *b'racha* and *don't* do the *mitzvah*, either "at all" or "in time", haven't you made a *b'racha levatalah*? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283959 |
Post edited: The asker is probably not Jewish, so adding something about Noachide laws (thanks dsr). |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283959 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Does God of Judaism permit to pray in any language? The general answer to your question is that Hebrew is preferable but you also need to understand what you're saying, so it's permitted to pray in other languages. (Ideally you are working to improve your Hebrew understanding along the way.) More specifically: the talmud on Sotah 33a (and vicinity... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283913 |
Post edited: motivation |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283913 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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How much of an interruption is permitted between a mitzvah blessing and the mitzvah? I was taught that we shouldn't make an interruption between saying a mitzvah b'racha and taking the action. I don't have a source for this other than that it makes sense; you don't want to risk making a blessing in vain if you interrupt with something else and never get back to it, and you should be... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283676 |
Are you saying that all the letters were revealed at once and then the high priest had to assemble them in the right order? I'd been assuming, without much basis, that the letters were revealed one at a time. If it's all at once, does that mean answers couldn't repeat letters? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283673 |
That last one is the one I linked in my question, and what led me to ask the question: they say that, but when I looked it up in Yoma, it didn't seem so clear to me. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283673 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Did the urim v'tummim require binary questions? The g'mara on Yoma 73a gives the following examples of questions asked of the urim v'tummim (Exodus 28:30) and their answers: - "Shall I pursue after this troop?" (I Samuel 30:8). Answer: "Thus says God: Go up and succeed." - "Will Saul come down?" Answer: "He will come down." (I Samuel 23:11)... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283665 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Alternative to Trope Trainer for printing large-print torah portions with trope and vowels? I've learned two things since asking this question: 1. Trope Trainer still works if disconnected from the Internet at launch time (a bit of a hassle, but it's a workaround -- h/t Power Users). 2. The rendering problem I'm having with the pasted text is some problem in Pages, but Google Docs wor... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283644 |
Thanks for the link. How do I select more verses than fit on the screen at one time? They don't seem to support multi-select, only click-and-drag, but the page also don't scroll to show more text during a drag. What am I missing? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283639 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Alternative to Trope Trainer for printing large-print torah portions with trope and vowels? I sometimes help other people in my synagogue learn to read torah. While I have a tikkun, I have some vision problems and find it much easier to print a portion from Trope Trainer, which offers a large-print option. (I'm usually working with one Shabbat aliyah at a time.) Well, I did. Unfortuna... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283553 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: dikduk question. According to Ibn Ezra on Devarim 21:15, שניאה is an adjective while שנואה is a noun. When the verse says: > If a man has two wives, one a loved one and the other a hated one Ibn Ezra is saying that "loved one" and "hated one" here are nouns -- that's the woman's "title", so to speak. It's a s... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283552 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Sefaria linker doesn't work on comments. Reproduced: In the comment thread on this post, the reference to Devarim 21:15 does not show as a link when you open the thread on the post page, but if you go to the full thread page it does. I wonder if the Sefaria linker runs once at page-load time, and because the comment thread is not expan... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283543 |
Post edited: Sefaria linker wants a different transliteration, I think |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283543 |
Post edited: added citation |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282734 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
If someone has fulfilled an obligation (like kiddush), can he then do it for others? I had been under the impression that somebody who is not personally obligated in a mitzvah (or maybe specifically a b'racha?) cannot do it on behalf of someone else. This is one of the usual explanations for why a woman can't lead (most) prayer in mixed groups, for example -- she's not obligated so ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282429 |
Post edited: added picture |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282579 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
Which haftarah when Rosh Chodesh Av is on Shabbat? This Shabbat is Rosh Chodesh Av. During the three weeks (which we're in the midst of) we read three special haftarot. On Rosh Chodesh normally we read a special haftarah. When they coincide, do we read both or does one take precedence over the other? I suppose I can wait a few days and find out... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282418 |
True. I asked it the way I did because the length of *this* paragraph is unusual, and in chat someone asked me why this one shouldn't be the baseline and maybe I should be asking about shorter paragraphs. Either way, this one is out of sync with, say, creation (one paragraph per day instead of one ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282429 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |